[pdpi]

Hexspeak[0] is a time-honoured tradition, with constants like 0xDEADBEEF used to mark uninitialised memory. Fun to see it applied to colours.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak

[collegeburner]

Yeah B16B00B5 and CAFEBABE are 2 of my favorite funnier ones Ive used a bunch of times. They make for more interesting placeholder values than "foo" and "bar" anyway.

[hypertele-Xii]

Without commenting on the reasonability of it, you may want to be aware that a growing population of vegetarian and female tech workers may find these offensive.

[collegeburner]

Beef dies in the wild too so DEADBEEF should not, I do not care if they want to use B16D1CC instead :) I can't see why CAFEBABE would be offensive though.

...And honestly I guess I don't care? If people are that mad about some levity then I probably do not want to work with them.

[mitchdoogle]

If you want levity, why not just use terms that aren't offensive? If you can't think of a joke without being sexist or misogynist, then that's on you - don't blame others for "not having a sense of humor"

[havblue]

You might get a pass on #cafebabe if your local baristas don't speak 1337.

[avgcorrection]

Dead beef is offensive (potentially) how?

[goldenkey]

I'm pretty sure both women and men love big boobs and big dicks...

[contingencies]

#FA6607 :)

[netsharc]

Shouldn't that be B16?

I'd make a joke about beware of the woke crowd coming for you, but I think even joking about that causes offense nowadays.

[hypertele-Xii]

No 6 looks like a 'b'. I think closest to 'g' is 9.

[function_seven]

But 'B' is already there, and all the other characters are uppercase, so '6' -> 'G' scans easier to my eye.

'619' may be 'big', but it doesn't scan that well. 'B16' looks more like 'BIG'

[jerrysievert]

I remember seeing 0xdeadbeef for the first time in dbx, which was my first experience with seeing uninitialized memory - was really surprised to not see it in the list on the website, since it's rgb+o (red/green/blue + opacity).